The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-08-31
The 5ailg 8nlletin.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 81, 1887.
OUR PARIS LETTER.


M. Wilfrid de Fonvielle, as the first
scientific and practical aeronaut in
France, took a leading part in this
aerial mail service. Later, he left
Paris in a balloon of his own, and
descended at Louvain, in Belgium.
Indeed that gentleman when he
desires to repose from mundane
anxieties, sets off in a balloon, and
remains cup" for few days at q
time, revealing in scientific observa-
tons. He is in addition to q scien-
fist, warm patriot and has orga-
nized a movement TO perpetuate the
descent of Gambetta, near Mont
didier, when he quit Paris in the
Armand Barnes balloon, ran the
vertical fire of the Germans, and in
due course reached Tours. The
balloon alighted about three-quarters
of a mile from the village of Epi-
nense and caught on to an old oak
in small wood. In the locality,
the tree is venerated as "Gambetta's
Oak" something as the "Royal Oak
of Charles" which refuged him
from Cromwell's cavalry. The bal
loon inclined a distance of 20 yards,
and the netting became fixed in a
second oak. M. de Fonvile pro-
poses to enclose the two trees, place
seats around and dedicate all to the
memory of Gambetta, and make it a
sacred spot for patriotic pilgrimages.
The spot happens to be owned by a
monarchal deputy, but he will not
refuse this concession to perpetuate
his country, for when Gambetta
alighted, it was France he repre-
sented not Republicanism. M. de
Fonyille considers the question of
steering balloons practically solved,
but he does not believe the military
experiments at the Mendon aerostic
school serious. The directors have
no technical knowledge, and the
government committed the error of
excluding all competent civilians
from aiding the school. lie truth
fully observes the staff at that
school are searching for an electric
pile rs motive power for aerial
work, which is unknown on earth,
and a gas which chemistry can never
produce. The Eureka EXPLANATIONS
are only ponder for the eyes if the
means have been discovered for
steering balloons, not against head
winds but to utilize the currents of
the air, to tack like ships, there is
no reason to keep the matter secret.
The glory will not be the less for
France.
1t will be q long time before a
journalist can expect to be cano-
nized, but the least that could be
accorded to pressmen was to honor
one of the craft with q statue,
simply because he was an editor.
Up to the present, all the old can
non, the purest blocks of Carrava
marble, the most advantageous sites,
were reserved for generals, royalties,
churchmen, and of late a sprinkling
of scientists and industrials. But
it is only ON Sunday last, statue
for the first time, has been erected
to q pressman, Armand Carrel, in
his native city of Rouen Carrel, was
killed in a duel by a brother editor,
Emile de Sivardin, himself severely
wounded, in 1886. The statue is
erected not far from the spot where
Joan of Arc was burned by the Eng
fish acting as police, on the orders
of the church as q sorceress. French
journalism at least has now its
patron saint. Strange, the unhappy
duel arose out of plan to reduce
the price of journals to three half
pence. And to-day, half century
later, the real "widest circulation in
the world paper" sells at one sou
the copy, and the "Petit Journal"
mere sigogue in progeny, has a
daily strike off of $4,000 copies,
as lately saw controlled. Carrel
was a vigorous writer, welding his
pen like sabre, for the cause of
progressive liberalism. He advo-
Gated advanced views, but never
demanded government to profess
them, never ministry to combat
home parties, but to rest the guar
dian sentinel to legality, and inces-
sanity dealing with concrete re-
forms, not sentimental, sensational,
or puglistic programmes.
A few criminal novelties: reci-
divist wagered he would throw a
prostitute over bridge into the
Seine. After drinking the bet, the
ruflians returned to the rivers edge
to laugh at the corpse. A lunatic,
during high mass at the Trinity
Church, on Sunday last, made
rush at the high altar to strike the
clergyman, the beadle grappled
with him, but the lunatic seized the
latter's stair and beat BUNDLE be-
fore the congregation till two police
men arrived.
The German parliament has pub
lished a list of all the speakers dur
ing the session, the subjects they
spoke on. and the time occupied in
their elbow"
Baron Larrey has made known to
the Academy of Sciences, that re-
cent researches demonstrate, that
Cleopatra did not die from the sting
of an asp, but from charcoal fumes,